- guileless
- adjective Date: circa 1616 innocent, naive • guilelessly adverb • guilelessness noun
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
guileless
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Guileless — Guile less, a. Free from guile; artless. {Guile less*ly}, adv. {Guile less*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
guileless — index clean, direct (forthright), genuine, honest, ingenuous, pure, simple, straightforward … Law dictionary
guileless — 1727, from GUILE (Cf. guile) + LESS (Cf. less). Related: Guilelessly; guilelessness … Etymology dictionary
guileless — [adj] honest aboveboard, artless, candid, frank, genuine, ingenuous, innocent, naive, natural, open, simple, simple minded, sincere, straightforward, truthful, unaffected, undesigning, unsophisticated, unstudied; concepts 267,542,545 Ant. artful … New thesaurus
guileless — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ lacking guile; innocent and without deception. DERIVATIVES guilelessly adverb … English terms dictionary
guileless — [gīl′lis] adj. without guile; candid; frank guilelessly adv. guilelessness n … English World dictionary
guileless — [[t]ga͟ɪlləs[/t]] ADJ GRADED (approval) If you describe someone as guileless, you mean that they behave openly and truthfully and do not try to deceive people. [WRITTEN] Daphne was so guileless that Claire had no option but to believe her. Syn:… … English dictionary
guileless — adjective how can you take advantage of someone so sweet and guileless? Syn: artless, ingenuous, naive, open, genuine, natural, simple, childlike, innocent, unsophisticated, unworldly, unsuspicious, trustful, trusting; honest, truthful, sincere,… … Thesaurus of popular words
guileless — guilelessly, adv. guilelessness, n. /guyl lis/, adj. free from guile; sincere; honest; straightforward; frank. [1720 30; GUILE + LESS] Syn. artless, ingenuous, naive, unsophisticated. * * * … Universalium
guileless — adjective Free from guile; honest but naïve … Wiktionary
